Word: one-and-a-half
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...morning heats, Princeton beat the varsity by one-and-a-half lengths in slow time caused by a strong headwind. Later in the morning, the winds shifted to tailwinds and the times picked up. This kept the varsity out of the finals because only the three heat victors and the fastest second-place finisher advanced...
Kathy, he said, began the day at Miami's Macfadden-Deauville Pool trying to do a difficult dive-a back one-and-a-half layout-off a 33-ft. board. She failed, hit "perfectly flat on her belly" and complained that her back hurt. Then he took her to the Treasure Isle Pool, where the children did conditioning work five days a week. Lifeguard Dick Kohler reported that she had "bruises all over her" and "wasn't feeling well." Russ fed her a can of baby soup. She vomited. Then Russ told her to go into the water...
...California's shapely Mrs. Patricia McCormick, already winner of the women's springboard-diving title, climbed the ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...
...one million dollars. This sum has come primarily from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Keppel decided early in the planning that the School should try to carry out the new program over at least a six-year period, and that new support should simultaneously be sought to continue the activities after that time. Approximately four million dollars, it was estimated, would be needed to provide for new professorships and more scholarships, while estimates on the new Education Building the School wants to erect run as high as one-and-a-half million...
Fifteen panel discussions, ranging from "Teaching Law" to "Lawyers in Politics," have been divided into four one-and-a-half hour periods; they will start tomorrow when the "School for Young Lawyers" really gets under way. Designed to analyze opportunities in the various fields of Law, they are open to undergraduate as well as graduate students...